Chapter 539: March
The battle that took place in the interior of the Western Continent finally ended with the glorious result of nearly 4,000 casualties among the forward troops who never set and eliminated more than 50,000 people who captured the water qilin side, and this battle can be regarded as the second battle in addition to the battle of the four county leaders, the second battle between the Sun Never Setting Empire and the Water Qilin Empire ended with a glorious victory in the Sun Never Setting Empire, although this battle has no gold content at all in Sun Lin's own opinion, and he just regarded this battle as a large-scale bandit encirclement and suppression task. Moreover, the reward given by the retention system was not enough for Sun Lin to mark the infrastructure in the territory where the sun never sets, and use it to build the territory that the Water Qilin Empire has invaded the Western Continent today. But no matter what, after all, it was a battle in which the number of participants on both sides exceeded 10,000, which still helped to inspire the morale of the army of the Western Continent.
And with the end of the battle, the Sunset Empire has also become the sole owner of the currently known area of the entire Western Continent, and the West Continent will also become another backyard of the Sunset Empire, just like the Northwest Continent conquered by the Sunset, of course, with the invasion of the territory of the Western Continent by the Water Qilin Empire before the Sunset Empire, the question of the rule of this territory will follow.
There are still not many problems in governing this newly occupied territory, except for the fact that the Sun Never Sets Folk Department can use the Atlantans who are now under the rule of the Sun Never Set in the coastal area of the Western Continent to send some representatives to come here to persuade the Atlantans, the most important thing is that they are more eager to let the Sun Never Set Empire rule them than to be ruled by the Water Qilin Empire, and said that here Sun Lin must also sincerely thank the fat head of the Water Qilin Empire, Lambold, Because he is the "culprit" of the current Atlantan's mentality.
Originally, due to the propaganda of Heidi Bart, the last emperor of the Atlanta Empire and the first and last king of the New Atlanta Kingdom, the Atlantans in this area thought that if they accepted the rule of the Sunset Empire, the Sunset Empire would not treat them as human beings at all, and would squeeze out as much oil and water as possible after occupying them. will be kind to themselves, but these Atlantans in the world are wrong, because the Water Qilin Empire is a powerful force with "war to feed war" as the center of the idea of governing the country, just like those steppe tribes from the steppe of the Central Continent, their army materials are all based on plunder, so the Atlantans in this area finally realized what it means to "fly locusts".
Of course, even so, the confidence in the Atalan people's hearts to rule the Water Qilin Empire has not yet collapsed, after all, the Water Qilin army comes and goes quickly, Auguste in order to deal with the domestic aristocratic power and religious power as soon as possible, so as to greatly enhance the rule of the imperial power, he did not let the water Qilin army that returned to perform the cleaning task stay in the Western Continent for a moment, so the water Qilin army is not strong for the plundering of the Western Continent.
But after Rambald accepted the region and the nouveau riche of the Water Kirin Empire to become lords, the confidence of the Atlantans was shattered in just a few days: Rambald was a man who was greedy for money and power, which could be used to curry favor with a grand duke in the aristocratic power and a bishop in the Poseidon Cult of the Water Kirin Empire.
Under the layers of exploitation by Rambold and the Water Qilin nobles, the confidence in the Water Qilin Empire in the hearts of the Atlantan people was finally destroyed, and they also understood from the merchants disguised as the spies that the sun never sets that they are completely guilty of choosing the Sun Never Sets Empire. Only those who lose know how to cherish it, so when the army of the day does not fall passes through the Atlantese gathering areas and towns in this area, the army of the sun does not set is almost warmest welcome in the history of its conquest.
However, although there is no problem in governing the people, there is a big problem in guarding this newly added territory, because the Western Continent and the Western Regions of the Central Continent are not like the Northwest Continent and the Northwest Regions of the Central Continent, separated by a rugged mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles between the two continents, and between the Western Continent and the Western Regions of the Central Continent, there is only a small stream that cannot be completely an obstacle to the march, and a large area of primeval forest that does not make sense. Therefore, after the West Continent Army attacked the Water Qilin Empire, it was very likely that the Water Qilin side would send a cavalry unit into the primeval forest, and then enter the West Continent to wreak havoc on the ruling area of the West Continent when the West Continent Army could not quickly return to help.
Fortunately, this problem has become a problem after Sun Lin's analysis, first of all, the invasion of the Water Qilin Empire in the Western Regions of the Central Continent is not only a matter of the Western Continent Army, he is also a matter of the Sun Never Sets Central Continent Expeditionary Force, so before the Western Continent Army invades the Water Qilin Empire on all fronts, the 200,000 cavalry troops in the Central Continent Expeditionary Force will be the first to enter the Water Qilin Empire, and there is this huge number of cavalry troops in the area ruled by the Water Qilin Empire. Sun Lin believed that the cavalry units in the army of the Water Qilin Great Empire would definitely be pinned down by the 200,000 cavalry army of the Great Empire on which the sun never set; And even if the Water Qilin side could still send cavalry troops to make a detour to attack the northwest region of the Central Continent or the Western Continent, Sun Lin was not afraid, because he remembered that he seemed to have two Sunset Cavalry Regiments with more than 6,000 people each, and with these 12,000 Sunset Griffin Knights monitoring the movements of the Water Qilin Empire's cavalry in the sky above the Water Qilin Empire, Sun Lin firmly believed that there would be no fish that slipped through the net.
Therefore, after the preliminary planning of the last territory of the Western Continent, Sun Lin handed over everything to the members of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to deal with at the same time, and issued a plan for the Western Continent Army to set off again, of course, because the next after entering the Western Continent and the Western Regions will usher in a fierce battle, so Sun Lin did not dare to hold it up, under Sun Lin's arrangement, the 2nd line of troops and professional troops in the Western Continent Army, including the elite troops, were divided into two troops, and went straight towards the Water Qilin Imperial City in a way one after the other. The 2nd Air Cavalry Regiment had already set off to reconnoiter the movements of the cavalry units on the Water Qilin side.
On the other side, the cavalry army led by a general and the prince of Cuman, who never sets, is now less than a hundred miles away from the territory of the Water Qilin Empire.